Once the MIT Museum was a sanctuary of substance, a sanctuary of wire and grit, a tribute to the restless engineering minds that reshaped the modern world. It didn’t rely on digital glitz to impress.

At Seeing and Understanding the Unknown, MIT physicists and curators will guide you through centuries of scientists’ work picturing the unseen — from 16th-century zoologists exploring life underwater ...

The 50 or so items in the show are drawn from the 1.5 million in the museum’s permanent collection CAMBRIDGE — “Moving” is a lexical two-fer. As a verb, it pertains to location, as in getting from one ...